All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 21 2020 // Carlyle, Alera GroupNew York-based investment firm The Carlyle Group led a $150 million investment for Deerfield, Ill.-based Alera Group, the property and casualty, employee benefits insurance broker that is a...
Sep 17 2020 // A discount car rental company operating out of Newark and JFK Airports has agreed to pay $80,000 in penalties, enter binding arbitration to resolve consumer complaints and change its policies and practices following New...
Sep 10 2020 // Nurses at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center were on edge as early as March when patients with COVID-19 began to show up in areas of the hospital that were not set aside to care for them.The Centers for Disease Control and...
Sep 8 2020 // IAT Insurance Group has named Chris Fox to its reinsurance business unit as managing director. He is based in IAT’s Newark, N.J., office. Fox comes to IAT after 12 years with Everest Re in both domestic and...
Sep 3 2020 // One80 Intermediaries, a national wholesale broker, program manager and insurance aggregator headquartered in Boston, Mass., has acquired the Equinox Management Group and its affiliates Meridian Management Group and...
Sep 2 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA), has acquired Advantage Benefit Concepts Inc. of Blackwood, N.J., on April 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Advantage Benefit Concepts Inc. specializes in employee...
Aug 31 2020 // A commuter bus slammed into a divider at New York City’s main bus terminal on Saturday, injuring 16 people – one critically, the fire department said.The New Jersey Transit bus crashed around 9:30 a.m. on an...
Aug 31 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) acquired Maximum Benefit Insurance Agency Inc. of Saddle Brook, N.J., on August 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Founded in 1994, Maximum Benefit Insurance Agency...
Aug 27 2020 // A New Jersey woman has been sentenced to five years in prison in the death of a pedestrian that prosecutors said occurred as the driver was texting – an accusation the defendant denied on the stand.Alexandra...
Aug 24 2020 // A former Pfizer employee who said she was fired for refusing a vaccine on religious grounds can’t proceed with a discrimination lawsuit because she waived that right, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in...
Aug 24 2020 // As a self-taught app developer, when Hayden Kopser sees a problem, he seeks to build a solution.So, when he observed during his time working at AIG that some brokerages weren’t adequately servicing high net worth...
Aug 21 2020 // National Weather Service officials on Thursday were trying to determine if a tornado touched down as a severe thunderstorm moved across a portion of New Jersey.Heavy rain and powerful winds sent residents scrambling in the...
Aug 19 2020 // A crash early Monday involving two New Jersey Transit buses on a New Jersey Turnpike exit ramp left roughly 12 people injured, authorities said.The accident in Secaucus occurred around 7:15 a.m., state police said. One bus...
Aug 13 2020 // The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance (DOBI) has provided guidance for homeowners suffering property damage caused by the recent tropical storm that rattled the state.DOBI has issued guidance for New Jersey...
Aug 7 2020 // A New Jersey appeals court’s decision to revive two lawsuits accusing Johnson & Johnson’s iconic Baby Powder of causing cancer may lead to the reinstatement of about 1,000 suits targeting the talc-based...
Aug 6 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired JF Murray Co. Inc. of Point Pleasant, N.J., on July 1, 2020. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.JF Murray Co. provides clients with complete insurance solutions...
Aug 5 2020 // Tropical Storm Isaias spawned tornadoes and dumped rain along the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday after making landfall as a hurricane in North Carolina, where it smashed boats together and caused floods and fires that...
Aug 5 2020 // Outdoor spaces hastily fancified for low-risk dining are keeping thousands of U.S. restaurants from closing permanently. But crashing the dinner party are tropical storms, rats — and the occasional out-of-control...
Aug 3 2020 // The Coast Guard on Saturday urged commercial and recreational boaters in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey to prepare for possible high surf, dangerous rip currents, heavy wind, heavy rainfall, and coastal flooding from...
Jul 28 2020 // A state judge ruled that New Jersey authorities can shut down a gym that has repeatedly defied Governor Phil Murphy’s executive order to remain closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.The ruling held Atilis Gym of...